Between then and now- Copyright Robert Fullarton 2013

 Between then and now-     Copyright Robert Fullarton 2013

Between then and now

The love has well

And truly left me

All birds migrate

A hollow tree

Unfruitful forests

In the bellowing

Cries

Of the smoky lit

Cities

Between then and now

the sky

Has fallen in

Time and rent

Couldn’t built

A humble tent

For a strained mind

In a mad time

The modern rhyme

Goes on and on

Forever

Until all nations

Fall asleep

The bitten pockets

Of my winter coat

Are shreds

In the face

Of swaggering costumes

And gowns

As the town

Booms

You sick birds
of the poison tree
have you not devoured
the sickness
that takes the artist whole
and total
he gazes on and on
into the infinite sky away
from present storms

Love speaks out again
from the hungry storm
Take me from the room
of mourning
to the mountains of joy
between then and now.....
from now to eternity...
deliver us to hope!